The son of former president Ronald Reagan warns in an op-ed published Tuesday that legalizing gay marriage will lead to polygamy, bestiality and perhaps even murder.

Michael Reagan, a political consultant, made the claims as he calls on church leaders to stand up and fight against same-sex marriage.

Legalizing same-sex marriages, he writes, inevitably will lead to teaching our public school kids that gay marriage is a perfectly fine alternative and no different from traditional marriage.

Reagan slams the Republican Party, saying party leaders are too preoccupied with the next presidential election to be concerned about the moral threat that he believes same-sex marriages pose to the country.

Same sex—sex is no way a marriage, it is an abomination, a mental illness.

People who endorse it are letting their love for their queer children and relatives cloud their minds.You have a friend that is queer-—fine, it doesn’t make his/her illness go away, that person is mentally ilAnd I dont care what the insane psychiatrists say,not may of them are playing with a full deck either.

AIDS is the first disease that has been granted "civil rights" to be completely covert. People don't have to tell their sexual partner that they are infected. This is essentially murder if the other person dies.

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posted on 04/03/2013 1:34:02 PM PDT
by fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)

It’s not explicit in the article, but apparently Michael is saying that if this particular bit of “moral legistlation” is questioned, and eventually discarded, other laws that legislate moral behavior, such as laws against murder, may be in danger.

IOW, it seems to be a backhanded slap at those who say, “You can’t legislate morality.”, more than an actual fear murder may become “legal” someday.

Murder by AIDS. Interesting theory. Certainly HIV has gotten enough press for people to know that unprotected gay sex with a stranger carries risks.

Also ... not sure how gay ‘marriage’ would lead to higher AIDS risks, or higher risk of murder-by-AIDS. Gay people already have sex. I can see the argument that it leads to polygamy, incestuous marriage, bestial marriage, general degeneracy, the breakdown of the family ... but I’m still not seeing how it leads to murder.

I don’t think that’s what he’s talking about.

SnakeDoc

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posted on 04/03/2013 1:41:33 PM PDT
by SnakeDoctor
("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)

>> To be willing to either be celibate, due to singlehood, or keep your sexual activities to your marriage partner requires a fair bit of self-control. The inability to practice self-control makes one more likely to be hostage to ones emotions. If youre a hostage to your emotions, you would be more prone to commit acts like murder.

If gay people lack self-control, and lack of self-control slavery to emotions, and emotional people are more likely to murder ... then we’re already there. Bastardizing marriage to include gay people isn’t going to give them any less self-control than they had before.

SnakeDoc

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posted on 04/03/2013 1:52:49 PM PDT
by SnakeDoctor
("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)

Not a theory. Fact. I knew this guy, friend of my ex-wife (figures) who was a homo who had AIDS. He was spreading it as far and as wide as he could. No, he wasn't telling anybody, it was on purpose. When I heard he kicked the bucket, the ex was surprised when I told her he should be roasting in Hell...more likely than anybody else I knew at the time. I told her flat out I think he was a murderer.

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posted on 04/03/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT
by Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)

It does  though I would think there is at least a minimal amount of contributory assumption of risk. Not enough to absolve the murderer, but enough to wonder why the victim didnt see the risk.

That's well-reasoned, and I agree. Those are mitigating factors. The litigating factors are premeditation and multiple murders. He got what the State of TX would have given him, minus the cost of the lethal injection drugs. But he also contributed greatly to the spread of the disease. This was back in the '80's, so I suspect the number of deaths he's responsible for is in the thousands.

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posted on 04/03/2013 2:32:04 PM PDT
by Cyber Liberty
(I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)

“Id be interested to hear how he gets from gay marriage to murder.”

In time to come, it is highly probable that those who do not wish to go along with the new homo normal will have to resort to killing the ones that do, and vice versa, since the ones wishing to go to the homo normal cannot allow dissent in order to achieve it. It is the sort of thing that admits little or no middle ground; therefore, the sort of dispute that ends badly. History is full of similar things.

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posted on 04/03/2013 2:36:04 PM PDT
by GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)

I haven’t read Reagan’s thoughts on the subject but here’s another way it leads to murder.
Gay marriage leads to increased acceptance of homosexual behavior, which leads to an increase in the incidence of pedophilia, and then the reconsideration of pedophilia from a medical/psychiatric disorder to a tolerable “difference.” More pedophiles, more child rapes, more deaths.

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posted on 04/03/2013 2:43:24 PM PDT
by HomeAtLast
( You're either with the Tea Party, or you're with the EBT Party.)

In the sense that almost anything can lead to murder, he’s probably right.

In the sense that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to polygamy, incest, and bestiality, he’s dead on right.

No matter what contortions they try to use, they cannot get around the simple fact that once you break the 1-man, 1-woman = marriage paradigm, you have effectively gutted the possibility of any limitations at all. If gay marriage is a valid lifestyle choice, there is absolutely no reason why 2 (or more) women and 1 man can not be.

And has been pointed out numerous times, there is far greater precedents for polygamy and incest than there ever were for gay marriage. In fact, I have yet to run across ANY historical precedent for gay marriage. The fact that homosexuality was condoned, or even celebrated in other cultures does not mean that it was officially sanctioned.

If someone knows an exception to that, I’d love to hear about it.

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posted on 04/03/2013 2:48:51 PM PDT
by Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)

On the heels of a provocative, eyebrow-raising op-ed published in the “Ironton [Ohio] Tribune,” this evening “Piers Morgan Live” invites Michael Reagan to return to the program and share the context and perspective that lead to his writing.

The adopted son of former president Ronald Reagan, and a former American radio host and Republican strategist, Reagan uses the newspaper’s platform to offer the following sentiments regarding same-sex marriage:

“This fight over Proposition 8 isnt just about saying it should be legal in the eyes of government for two people of the same sex to get married in California. Its ultimately about changing the culture of the entire country; it inevitably will lead to teaching our public school kids that gay marriage is a perfectly fine alternative and no different than traditional marriage. There is also a very slippery slope leading to other alternative relationships and the unconstitutionality of any law based on morality. Think about polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder.”

As Michael Reagan points out, anything goes when it comes to liberals and sex. Straight, gay, bestiality, whatever. Anything goes when you need to deal with the consequences of promiscuous sex — namely, killing the inconvenient baby that results from that reckless night in bed.

If anything, the marriage debate is a lagging indicator. Marriage is being bastardized to fit a degenerate culture, or to solidify it ... not to create one.

SnakeDoc

"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.

The first stage being "demoralization".

It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.."

"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

"...the Weathermen, when not engaged in group sex, committed such revolutionary acts as parading with a Viet Cong flag through a local park on Independence Day and spray-painting the walls of a high school with the slogans, "Off the Pigs," "Viet Cong Will Win," and "F#$k U.S. Imperialism."..."

"What happens next bears watching closely, as does the response of the president, ex-Speaker Pelosi, and others on the left. Encouraged by leftists in the Democratic Party and funded by left-leaning nonprofit organizations and celebrity contributors, Occupy Wall Street may in time morph into something resembling the radical factions of the late 1960s and 1970s."

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